June 9, 2008
This palm sized pet followed me home from ICE. His name is George, and he likes to rest under the basil trees on my deck. Isn’t he pretty? Look at those points!
If you want to adopt your own palm-sized pet, there will be plenty more here over the next few days.
May 30, 2008
So I made this dress to wear to a friend’s wedding, which is Sunday. It fits perfectly… if I was 3 inches shorter. *headdesk*
Ah well, into the Etsy shop it goes.
May 22, 2008
The last festival of the season is coming up in two short weeks! Eek! I’ve got a stack of custom orders here that are all in various stages of being finished/ready to mail. I should be sewing right now!
But, I thought I’d take a few minutes to document some of the stuff that has been travelling thru the craft room and out to awesome homes lately, so here!
whew. and that’s only what I remembered to take photos of. I seriously need to clean up the back porch so I can get more photos. It has borne the brunt of our bathroom tiling project, lol.
May 2, 2008
May 1, 2008
Remember these guys?
Well, Sunday it rained at the festival, and while we were wondering if it would ever stop, this girl came in and bought some skirts from me. She turned my day right around when she said our homeade shopping bags were so cool she thought she might cry. It just felt so good to know that the effort we put in was appreciated and that other people understood what we were trying to accomplish.
Then, just like that, the sun came out and the rest of the day was awesome.
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(There might also have been cupcakes and beer, but that’s a whole other post. )
April 28, 2008
I totally forgot to post about the Inman Park festival, oops. Umm, we were there? Ha.
It poured like crazy Saturday night and Sunday, but we did surprisingly well given that. The parade was awesome as usual, fewer political protest floats and more environmental ones, which was cool. What was not cool was all the idiot politicians in their gas guzzling cars. The exhaust nearly made me pass out at one point. Ugh.
Here’s an awesome photo of a very satisfied customer:
I’m exhausted today, and staring at a house that looks like a craft tornado hit it, in addition to all the other crap that has been accumulating. It’s slightly overwhelming and the continued rain just makes me want to take a nap. I think I need to make another pot of coffee.
My Grampa didn’t have his surgery last week. There was a complication that would have been extremely problematic. They’ve given him some different medecine and will try again this week. I think I’m going up there at the end of the week to see him, if we can. We’ve been trying to plan to go up there this week, but everything has been so up in the air. It still is, but what can you do? Just trying to keep it together and not let the worry monster take over.
Ok, about that second pot of coffee…..
April 21, 2008
Anyone following this blog knows one of my side projects is SuperCute!, which is a collaborative project with Becky and Liz. One of the things we feel really strongly about is using our crafting to try and make a difference in the way people think about their day to day lives and habits. We call it Craftivism, but that term can mean different things to different people, so we thought maybe we would take a moment to write a little bit about what that word meant to us as individuals. Everyone’s responses will be up over at the SuperCute! blog, but I thought I’d also put mine here…
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In the most obvious sense, to me Craftivism means Activism, as expressed by Crafting.
I think a big part of it is showing people how their lives can be different by doing things themselves, or by changing their habits to ones that are not only more sustainable, but prettier and more personalized, and just more fun! Craftivism is a way to combat the mass-marketing media, and to really express yourself and your beliefs. I also think a big chunk of it revolves around supporting a different type of economy, a smaller, more local one which by default has less impact overall as well as more transparency and acountability.
April 21, 2008
Lucky #7!!! SuperCute! will be here and we’re so excited about it we can hardly wait!!!!!
April 15, 2008
For all you sustainability nuts, I posted a make-your-own-bubble-mailers from recycled materials tutorial over in the SuperCute! blog:
tutorial!
April 15, 2008
My favoritest place in the whole city to go see awesome artists and shop for amazing things from some of the best indie artists/designers in the world is finally reopening in their new location!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark it on your calendars: May 1st! I’ll be there, will you?? (Oh, and since May 1st is Lucie’s Birthday, there will also be a stop at the Cupcake Factory, which is next door)
(click image to go to their site)
In even better news, they’re going to be stocking some of my recycled sweater softies and snakes, as well as the new candle cups I’ve been making AND my skirts! squeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
(I would have photos, except I’m an idiot and had the camera on the wrong setting. Of course. *sigh*)
Anyway, they’re also carrying Becky’s bento kits!!! rad!
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